City life Quote by Kwame Anthony Appiah

Genuine cosmopolitanism is a rare thing. It requires comfort with real difference, with forms of life that are truly exotic relative to one's own.

— Ross Douthat

Sometimes a rural life - without agricultural culture, community, or land - it means that you're a very long drive from everything. It's a…

— Debra Granik

No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.

— Agnes Repplier

“Rural culture is marked by a different sense of time, a different cosmology. At the core of rural culture, he says, is a belief…

— Xiaowei Wang

Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy.

— Bill Pullman

I have seen rural life and met all kinds of people.

— Smriti Irani

Once wealth and beauty are gone, there is always rural life.

— Mason Cooley

The city an epitome of the social world. All the belts of civilization intersect along its avenues. It contains the products of every moral…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

There is a city myth that country life was isolated and lonely; the truth is that farmers and their families then had a richer…

— Rose Wilder Lane

[Cities] are not like suburbs, only denser. They differ from towns and suburbs in basic ways, and one of these is that cities are,…

— Jane Jacobs

I've always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very strange to city dwellers.

— John Sandford

To be really cosmopolitan a man must be at home even in his own country.

— Thomas Wentworth Higginson